CATHOLIC WATCHDOG GROUP TO CONDUCT MEETING OF ALBANY CATHOLICS
An international group
of faithful Roman Catholics has scheduled a public meeting in Albany to
discuss its ongoing investigation of the Albany Catholic Diocese.
Stephen G. Brady,
president of the Roman Catholic Faithful, Inc. (RCF) issued a statement on
Wednesday that he will arrive in Albany from RCF’s headquarters in
Petersburg, Illinois, on Saturday evening, February 21. The meeting will
take place at 6:00 p.m. Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany City
Center, State & Lodge Streets, Ten Eyck Plaza, Albany, NY 12207.
In 2001, Mr. Brady was entrusted by
the recently-deceased Fr. John Minkler with a confidential 1995
report of corruption in the Albany diocese that Fr. Minkler had prepared
for then-New York Cardinal O’Connor. Fr. Minkler had been seeking RCF’s
assistance to help bring about reformative changes in the Albany diocese.
RCF was contacted by Fr. Minkler the day before his body was discovered in
his Watervliet home.
Joining Mr. Brady at the meeting
will be Paul Likoudis, news editor of The Wanderer, a weekly
Catholic newspaper. For over 15 years, Mr. Likoudis has probed the link
between the homosexual revolutionists who came to power in the early 1960s
and the moral downfall of the Roman Catholic Church. Fr. Minkler had been
informing Mr. Likoudis about problems in the Albany diocese for the last
13 years. Mr. Likoudis spoke with Fr. Minkler shortly after Father’s
Friday meeting with chancery officials, just two days before his body was
found.
RCF is a not-for-profit
lay organization, with many religious members, dedicated to promoting
orthodox Catholic teaching and fighting heterodoxy and corruption within
the Catholic hierarchy.
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